This ranges all over the humanities, from linguistics to art, philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, aesthetics, literary criticism, pop culture, folklore, and cultural studies. Its many contributors ...

Much need of more open projects and free access to important historic resources and collections. with great digital tools and less interpretation and narrative. Let the user interact directly with the sources and data by their own discovery , then able to choose and interact with scholarly discourses and layers of interpretation. Some lessons to be learned from serving the sources and documents and media with great toolkits to encourage some direct experience of working with source !materials aka family histories and micro histories.

More early-stage companies are signing up for IBM's fancy Watson supercomputing technology for processing lots of text and then making decisions on the fly. But they're not rolling in big racks ful...

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With the established ability re big data and analytics and here even with machine learning and a trend towards 'as a service infrastructure' is there a DH opportunity? Are there standards and shared infrastructures that would enable more innovation and pure research? All for original research but if we do not want to reinvent the wheel and learn from, leverage and deploy the best tools can a more strategic approach be adopted to save money as well or at least let it achieve more? Europeana, Jisc, projects out of Edina re Georeferencing etc has informed and enabled for instance British Library crowd sourced map projects but is it all too piecemeal? where can DH and OpenGLAm come together more, as an example. And finally using TEI and Machine Learning what projects have been achieved and again how can these core capabilities be better shared ?

The paper we wrote addressed how linked open data could help to answer communication design problems for cultural heritage institutions. It was short and a little sweet – mostly it felt nice to share the hard work of librarians, ...

Vatican archives to be fully digitised but will that mean #openaccess for all? Starting with 6000 manuscripts already in progress the plan is now to make all the 80,000 manuscripts accessible to mankind. what a fascinating read they will make, assuming there will be full disclosure, what really happened when the Vatican and the Papacy virtually ruled the world?

what a resource and what a #digitalhumanities feast this will be. But hope that some european GLAMS and DM2 initiatives will be involved?

Same as Google...Google+ there is no such thing as a free lunch, software application, platform and utility i exchange for targeting data, is that so unreasonable and how many ads do you have to sell to get the $16 billion return plus profit...

The Guardian Already Has An In-House Tool for “Attention Analytics.” Do You?

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I missed this from just over a week ago but wondered if a similar approach was being used and/or had been standardised as a tool set for DH/DS deployed and publicly accessible projects> Anyone got info to share would be appreciated. thanks

Gordon Dunsire, Chair of the JSC, said “The RDA element set is a distillation of modern approaches to resource discovery supporting rich descriptions of library and cultural heritage materials and detailed relationships between them at ...

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

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Twitter is sharing its massive trove of data with the academic world — for free.

The social networking outfit has long sold access to its enormous collection of tweets — a record of what the people of the world are doing and saying — hooking companies like Google and Yahoo into the “Twitter fire hose.” But now, through a new grant program, it wants to make it easier for social scientists and other academics to explore its tweet archive, which stretches back to 2006. ...

In parallel, Europe is publishing growing amounts of Linked Open Data, including rich metadata about its cultural heritage. The LinkedTV project's goal is to seamlessly interlink TV and Web content to enrich the user's experience of both.

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linkedTV BBC been doing this for a couple of years but standards would be good

This paper presents methods and tools created as part of Linked Jazz [1], a project that explores innovative ways to enhance the discovery and interpretation of cultural heritage through the application of Linked Open Data (LOD) technology to...

A fantastic new visualisation work has been released today titled ‘Kindred Britain‘. Created by Nicholas Jenkins and Elijah Meeks of Stanford University in partnership with Scott Murray (amongst others) the project offers a deep, exploratory interface into a network of nearly 30,000 key figures in British culture connected through ‘family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation’. As the designers describe, ‘it is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair’.

RICHES (Renewal, Innovation & Change: Heritage and European Society) is a project about change: about the change digital technologies are bringing to our society, decentring culture and cultural heritage away from institutional structures ...

Interesting paper presented by a group of experts and researchers at the ACM Congress DocEng 2013 to introduce the main characteristics of the digital cultural collections that constitute the use cases presently in use in the CULTURA ...

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